Schedule for Thursday, May 22
Here's what we have on tap for you today. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates. Jian speaks with Irish artist Richard Mosse, the newly-announced winner of Europe's most prestigious photography award: the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. The photographer offers insight into his beautiful but unsettling multimedia installation, The Enclave -- a project...
Here's what we have on tap for you today. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates.
- Jian speaks with Irish artist Richard Mosse, the newly-announced winner of Europe's most prestigious photography award: the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. The photographer offers insight into his beautiful but unsettling multimedia installation, The Enclave -- a project that re-frames and literally re-colours scenes from eastern Congo. [FULL POST]
- Controversial stage performer Mike Daisey on his latest subject -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford -- another person who has an interesting relationship to truth and fiction. [FULL POST]
- First Nations artist Rebecca Belmore on her visceral and imaginative work, which uses performance, sculpture, installation and video to explore personal and political subjects. She was the first aboriginal woman to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, and is a recipient Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts [FULL POST]